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Well my trip to Costco make infinitely more sense. I saw these 3 foot tall dolls for sale of the camera head characters. They were titled “skibidi toilet titans

by rufius 1y ago

Well my trip to Costco make infinitely more sense. I saw these 3 foot tall dolls for sale of the camera head characters. They were titled “skibidi toilet titans” but I was only familiar with the song mashups, not the web series. Kids are always gonna love stuff that pisses off their parents. It’s just part of parenting and being a kid. My parents hated my love for the weird shows on Adult Swim like metalocalypse and squidbillies. Big shrug - no one should be surprised this portrays a non-narrative future. The future feels pretty chaotic and undirected to me as an adult. I can’t imagine how it feels to a 12 year old.

candiddevmike 1y ago
Idk, I wouldn't consider adult swim and friends brain rot. Whereas kids these days celebrate brain rot ("Italian brain rot", specifically). I see this as part of the larger anti-intellectualism gripping our species and really dislike it. A lot of these kids are glued to screens and are fed just a constant stream of ads and algorithmic shit while forming parasocial relationships with fake personalities.
- andai 1y ago
  I was at the bookstore and they Italian Brainrot keychains.
- epiccoleman 1y ago
  > Idk, I wouldn't consider adult swim and friends brain rot. I tend to agree, there's a pretty big difference between writing and animating a full-on show and the weird tiktok/roblox/youtube slop I see. Then again - Skibidi Toilet is like a whole saga, and there was some pretty stupid stuff airing on Adult Swim. maybe i'm just getting old.
hirvi74 1y ago
> weird shows on Adult Swim like metalocalypse and squidbillies Those masterpieces belong in the Louvre.
- Cthulhu_ 1y ago
  Maybe in 20 years people will say the same about Skibidi Toilet, if it isn't already in there. Corporations are embracing it already, a local chain had a campaign titled "skibidi school".
- Der_Einzige 1y ago
  Most of adult swim is trash. Metalocalypse is definitely better than average but squidbillies is slop, so is a lot of stuff people here might claim to like including and especially robot chicken.
  - righthand 1y ago
    Squidbillies is more clever than you’ll ever understand. Definitely not “slop”. From your comment it is very clear you don’t enjoy irreverent humor or animation really. Not everyone has $200 million to blow on Tron: Ares level animation.
    - Der_Einzige 1y ago
      I liked Moral Oral, and the PJs, Venture Brothers, and even really whacky stuff they did like Xavier: Renegade Angel. I could even sort of get stuff like Superjail. But Squidbillies is a bridge too far. So was home movies.
      - righthand 1y ago
        Some of those are aren’t Adult Swim originals fyi.
  - epiccoleman 1y ago
    squidbillies, i think, is a good example of something that appears on the surface to be completely stupid, but actually has a pretty clever core. South Park is kind of similar, I think I'd have a difficult time convincing my parents generation, for example, that South Park is at times one of the smartest shows on TV.
ChrisGermano 1y ago
On a similar note my parents didn't love the [AS] shows with more narrative but always sat down to watch stuff like 12oz Mouse with me. I still enjoy that kind of loose narrative content but I really don't get a lot of stuff these days, Skibidi included.
Cthulhu_ 1y ago
> Kids are always gonna love stuff that pisses off their parents. Thing is, gen alpha's parents grew up with weird shit themselves, edgy stuff that pushed the boundaries of what is acceptable. MTV and Comedy Central productions for a lot of people, stuff like Beavis & Butthead, Jackass, South Park, and then the 2000's internet of Newgrounds productions. Especially South Park I think desensitized the millennial generation, to the point where there's nothing that really weirds us (well, me) out. I never watched skibidi toilet or much gen alpha stuff, but I'm not shocked by it or anything. I just think it's weird and surreal, but nothing worse than e.g. Salad Fingers.
- aftbit 1y ago
  Salad Fingers! That lives rent free in my brain, near Magical Trevor and Schfifty Five, and a bunch of 90s TV ads. It's my money and I want it now!
  - singleshot_ 1y ago
    It’s your _settlement_ and you _need cash now_.
  - dgfitz 1y ago
    Remember: if you have a phone, you have a lawyer.
  - Modified3019 1y ago
    In case you didn’t know, Filmcow’s Charlie the Unicorn and Llama’s with Hats series are finished now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bKd_2vqPrmU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bKd_2vqPrmU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XPj_1XzPCj4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XPj_1XzPCj4
  - hatradiowigwam 1y ago
    JG Wentworth...this guy is stuck in other people's brain's too!? I thought that was a locally aired commercial when I was younger, but apparently that earworm went nationwide!
- 1y ago
pavel_lishin 1y ago
> Kids are always gonna love stuff that pisses off their parents. Does this stuff piss off parents? Some of what my child is into is incomprehensible to me, but a lot of it is absolutely recognizable as the kind of things I was into as a kid, it's just their version of it in 2025. I'm actually rather enjoying watching her go through this, trying to understand what some of it means, and just going along with the ride of some stuff. Yesterday, my kid very excitedly told me about something funny that the whole class did with 6 7. The 6 7 meme is completely opaque to me, but it was still an amusing story, and while I don't understand the specifics, I love that all of it is happening.
- epiccoleman 1y ago
  the 6-7 thing has been a source of constant amusement for me. my kid told me that one of their teachers had (with good humor) banned saying "6 7" and we immediately went down a rabbit hole of how he could "side-channel" 6 7s into conversation - like "hey, $teacher, what's the next prime number after 61?" he told me there's a small bustling trade in learning numbers in other languages - "seis siete" for example. seems like harmless fun to me.
- rufius 1y ago
  I think it does for a substantial portion, especially those with more traditionally aligned values. We know families, through our extended social groups, that would cringe at the Skibidi Toilet stuff. I'm not sure why? At least some part of it, I suspect, is related to the "outrage economy". That is, outrage that can drive social media engagement. You don't do it because you're, in good faith, bothered by it. You do it because you can raise a stink and rally others to engage and make yourself popular. That last bit is just a theory of mine. It seems anecdotally supported though from my own observation, but I am not a sociologist so I'm not going to claim any expertise here.
jandrese 1y ago
I don't think it is even so much about angering their parents as just having something they know that their parents don't. Skibidi Toilet is pretty old hat at this point. It is well off of the radar. Current trends include stuff like 6-7.

by rufius 1y ago

candiddevmike 1y ago

Idk, I wouldn't consider adult swim and friends brain rot. Whereas kids these days celebrate brain rot ("Italian brain rot", specifically). I see this as part of the larger anti-intellectualism gripping our species and really dislike it. A lot of these kids are glued to screens and are fed just a constant stream of ads and algorithmic shit while forming parasocial relationships with fake personalities.

andai 1y ago
I was at the bookstore and they Italian Brainrot keychains.
epiccoleman 1y ago
> Idk, I wouldn't consider adult swim and friends brain rot. I tend to agree, there's a pretty big difference between writing and animating a full-on show and the weird tiktok/roblox/youtube slop I see. Then again - Skibidi Toilet is like a whole saga, and there was some pretty stupid stuff airing on Adult Swim. maybe i'm just getting old.

hirvi74 1y ago

> weird shows on Adult Swim like metalocalypse and squidbillies Those masterpieces belong in the Louvre.

Cthulhu_ 1y ago
Maybe in 20 years people will say the same about Skibidi Toilet, if it isn't already in there. Corporations are embracing it already, a local chain had a campaign titled "skibidi school".
Der_Einzige 1y ago
Most of adult swim is trash. Metalocalypse is definitely better than average but squidbillies is slop, so is a lot of stuff people here might claim to like including and especially robot chicken.
- righthand 1y ago
  Squidbillies is more clever than you’ll ever understand. Definitely not “slop”. From your comment it is very clear you don’t enjoy irreverent humor or animation really. Not everyone has $200 million to blow on Tron: Ares level animation.
  - Der_Einzige 1y ago
    I liked Moral Oral, and the PJs, Venture Brothers, and even really whacky stuff they did like Xavier: Renegade Angel. I could even sort of get stuff like Superjail. But Squidbillies is a bridge too far. So was home movies.
    - righthand 1y ago
      Some of those are aren’t Adult Swim originals fyi.
- epiccoleman 1y ago
  squidbillies, i think, is a good example of something that appears on the surface to be completely stupid, but actually has a pretty clever core. South Park is kind of similar, I think I'd have a difficult time convincing my parents generation, for example, that South Park is at times one of the smartest shows on TV.

ChrisGermano 1y ago

On a similar note my parents didn't love the [AS] shows with more narrative but always sat down to watch stuff like 12oz Mouse with me. I still enjoy that kind of loose narrative content but I really don't get a lot of stuff these days, Skibidi included.

Cthulhu_ 1y ago

> Kids are always gonna love stuff that pisses off their parents. Thing is, gen alpha's parents grew up with weird shit themselves, edgy stuff that pushed the boundaries of what is acceptable. MTV and Comedy Central productions for a lot of people, stuff like Beavis & Butthead, Jackass, South Park, and then the 2000's internet of Newgrounds productions. Especially South Park I think desensitized the millennial generation, to the point where there's nothing that really weirds us (well, me) out. I never watched skibidi toilet or much gen alpha stuff, but I'm not shocked by it or anything. I just think it's weird and surreal, but nothing worse than e.g. Salad Fingers.

aftbit 1y ago
Salad Fingers! That lives rent free in my brain, near Magical Trevor and Schfifty Five, and a bunch of 90s TV ads. It's my money and I want it now!
- singleshot_ 1y ago
  It’s your _settlement_ and you _need cash now_.
- dgfitz 1y ago
  Remember: if you have a phone, you have a lawyer.
- Modified3019 1y ago
  In case you didn’t know, Filmcow’s Charlie the Unicorn and Llama’s with Hats series are finished now. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bKd_2vqPrmU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bKd_2vqPrmU https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XPj_1XzPCj4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XPj_1XzPCj4
- hatradiowigwam 1y ago
  JG Wentworth...this guy is stuck in other people's brain's too!? I thought that was a locally aired commercial when I was younger, but apparently that earworm went nationwide!
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pavel_lishin 1y ago

> Kids are always gonna love stuff that pisses off their parents. Does this stuff piss off parents? Some of what my child is into is incomprehensible to me, but a lot of it is absolutely recognizable as the kind of things I was into as a kid, it's just their version of it in 2025. I'm actually rather enjoying watching her go through this, trying to understand what some of it means, and just going along with the ride of some stuff. Yesterday, my kid very excitedly told me about something funny that the whole class did with 6 7. The 6 7 meme is completely opaque to me, but it was still an amusing story, and while I don't understand the specifics, I love that all of it is happening.

epiccoleman 1y ago
the 6-7 thing has been a source of constant amusement for me. my kid told me that one of their teachers had (with good humor) banned saying "6 7" and we immediately went down a rabbit hole of how he could "side-channel" 6 7s into conversation - like "hey, $teacher, what's the next prime number after 61?" he told me there's a small bustling trade in learning numbers in other languages - "seis siete" for example. seems like harmless fun to me.
rufius 1y ago
I think it does for a substantial portion, especially those with more traditionally aligned values. We know families, through our extended social groups, that would cringe at the Skibidi Toilet stuff. I'm not sure why? At least some part of it, I suspect, is related to the "outrage economy". That is, outrage that can drive social media engagement. You don't do it because you're, in good faith, bothered by it. You do it because you can raise a stink and rally others to engage and make yourself popular. That last bit is just a theory of mine. It seems anecdotally supported though from my own observation, but I am not a sociologist so I'm not going to claim any expertise here.

jandrese 1y ago

I don't think it is even so much about angering their parents as just having something they know that their parents don't. Skibidi Toilet is pretty old hat at this point. It is well off of the radar. Current trends include stuff like 6-7.